Right-Brained Astrology

 

February 11, 2005

 

http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/feb11.html

 

Eric:

I have recently come across an astrologer who interprets one's chart based on whether one is left or right brained. Since coming across this method I am very curious as to its legitimacy among astrologers such as yourself. Basically this person turned my chart 180 degrees based on my orientation to the world so to speak, meaning that I am right brained. Are you familiar with this method is it legitimate, is it a new mode of viewing one's charts? With this method I am still a Pisces but my rising is Scorpio etc. I would be most appreciative if you could address this method.

 

Querying Pisces, Cecilia

 

 

Dear QPC,

I don't think it's possible to just assess a person and decide whether they are left-brained or right-brained. How do they know? I'm not even sure there is such a thing.

 

What does she do with someone who comes in and says, 'I'm a physicist and a poet'? Does this astrologer think that everyone thinks with just half their brain, and that if they think with one particular half, they experience the entire cosmos upside-down?

 

I am not sure by what logic the astrologer takes a (perceived) lateral change and 'corrects' it by turning it into a vertical inversion.

 

As an astrologer, this person has many opportunities to know that processing reality requires accessing all areas of the brain and the body. The natal chart in its normal state is going to have numerous metaphors for left versus right, intuitive versus logical, creative versus intellectual -- and for balancing and integrating these factors -- and we need to use them all in our right-side-up reality.